Last night and the night before
Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door.
So I discovered that the injectors I have cost $22 each to clean. That’s $22 x 8. $176.
Sorry.
All you need to clean these bastards is a fluid at 30 psi. And some way to turn them on (12 volts)
So I made this.
The injector gets clamped between a bushing I bored out for the purpose, and a piece of redi-bar.
The top valve opens so I can spray or pour in a measured amount of carb cleaner; the pigtail is connected to a horn switch, and the regulator uses air pressure to get the fluid up to the appropriate pressure. The glass cylinder at the bottom allows me to catch and reuse the cleaning solvent, and also view the spray.
So you put in a measured amount of fluid, push the button, and time how long the fluid takes to go through the injectors. They were a teeny bit dirty at first, but nothing dramatic. And so I cleaned them all and checked their flow times against one another, and am now ready to reinstall.
Sweet.
Hahaha, that’s great Og!
Nothin’ like just MAKING SOMETHING THAT WORKS!
I love it.
And Merry Christmas to the Oghouse :)
yep, Aaron, the Cheap Bastard in me refused to pay the cash. And now, I have my very own Injector tester! How cool is that?
THATS a nice bit of work there! What did you clean them with?
I did the first run with just standard carb cleaner. Then I got my hands on some Techron and mixed it with some other things. Seems to have done an incredible job.
That is one sweet looking rig, I need to make something like that to test some old injectors I have laying about.
One caution: some injectors don’t take kindly to 100% duty cycle operation for extended periods of time.
Yeah, if I had more to test I’d have set up a PLC to pulse them X number of times and measure the amount of flow.
Will ya lookit that. Another use for Uni-strut. I thought I had seen them all but Og comes through!
Russ
BTW, good rig.